Milestone
Chinese Blog tops Technorati 100
Technorati has been keeping track of the increasing number of blogs in languages other than English reporting at their last State of the Blogosphere that English is no longer the dominate language of blogs; the majority of blog posts are now in Japanese.
The number one blog on the Technorati 100 is now, 老徐 徐静蕾 新浪BLOG [...]
Rocketboom now available on your Tivo
Rocketboom, the daily video newscast is now available for download to your broadband connected Tivo.
We differ from a regular TV program in many important ways.
Instead of costing millions of dollars to produce, Rocketboom is
created with a consumer-level video camera, a laptop, two lights and a
map with no additional overhead or costs.
It’s also distributed via RSS [...]
Blogs on the cover of BusinessWeek
It’s going to be another busy week - BusinessWeek has a lengthy cover story on why companies need to pay attention to blogs.
Go ahead and
bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to
them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in the
information world since the Internet itself. And they’re going to shake
up [...]
del.icio.us goes pro
Joshua Schachter, the creator of the social tagging system that has taken the blogging community by storm and is often pointed to as a prime example of "folksonomy" in action, announced that he’s quitting his job, taking on investment, and devoting himself full time to del.icio.us.
Hooray, another one leaves the nest to pursue his dream!
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Nando Rebranded
A sign of the times perhaps. Nando Times, one of the first online media organizations is being re-branded by it’s parent as McClatchy interactive. Nando, launched in 1994, was shorthand for The News & Observer and was, in the early days, the first place to go for quality news online.
Yahoo cuts to the chase
We’ve seen it played out over and over again. The internet has enabled consumers to go directly to the production plant for disintermediated product. Covered in detail in Michael Lewis’ book, Next, the internet has upset age old business models, putting raw materials within reach of the everyman and providing a platform for a thousand [...]
Six Apart & Live Journal
The internet has been on fire the past few days here at Six Apart sales with the announcement that we are acquiring Live Journal. I’ll be the lazy meta man and link to our very own Jay Allen who’s done a great job of pulling together the “must reads” on the topic.
I will continue to [...]
Web 2.0
I realize I’m getting liberal with the “Milestone” tag but it truly seems as if we are living in historic times. I just got off of an amazing three days in San Francisco where I saw history being made all around me at Web 2.0 in San Francisco. Maybe I’m still new to this industry [...]
How News Gets Made
What a week! Amidst all the excitement of Web 2.0, we announced that we raised $10 million in funding. A couple of us went to Kokkari, arestaurant downtown, to celebrate when Mena realized that she forgot to post her perspective on the announcement. Ben fiddled with the Bluetooth connections on the phone and the laptop [...]
Blogs on Jeopardy
As a self-titled weblog about the intersection of media, technology, and finance, the appearance of Blogs on Jeopardy cannot go ignored.
I’m off to Web 2.0 tomorrow. Look me up if you’re there.
